The impacts of the drop in official development assistance for health and its implications for public health work in LMIC 

with Dr. Stephen Hodgins, MD, MSc, DrPH

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12 - 12:50 pm

Location:  Zoom and ECHA 4-001 (hybrid)

One of Dr. Hodgins' current preoccupations has been the sudden and very significant drop in official development assistance for health, notably due to decisions by Trump, Musk, and company as well as cuts in commitments from the governments of France, Germany and the UK. This talk will address the implications for public health work that these cuts are having on low and middle income countries (LMIC). 

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Dr. Stephen Hodgins, MD, MSc, Dr.PH is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the UofA.  He is a family physician by training, with an MSc in epidemiology and biostatistics and a DrPH in health behaviour and public health leadership.  

His initial focus was on community health in low-income settings as a volunteer in India in the early 1980s. He spent a period of six years involved in similar work with First Nations and Inuit communities in Quebec.

Over the past 25 years, most of his work has focused on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa working in global health--especially maternal-child health, nutrition and primary health care. This has included extended periods living in Zambia and Nepal where he has had a continued engagement since 2003. Read more